#  Korean Literature Symposium: Crossing Borders 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 2, 2014** 

 08:50AM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Faculty Club Reading Room, 20 Quincy St.**  



 

 



 

In honor of Professor David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature

*Sponsored by Korea Institute, Harvard University*  
*Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard University Asia Center*  
  
**Schedule:**  
8:15 – 8:45 Breakfast & Registration  
  
8:50 – 9:00 Introductory Remarks by Professor Sun Joo Kim  
  
9:00 – 10:45 **Session I: Form and Freedom in Korean Literature** Moderator: Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University)  
Discussants: Edwin Cranston (Harvard University), Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), Bruce Fulton (University of British Columbia)  
  
Seung-Hee Jeon (Yonsei University)  
*Creative Adaptation of Traditional Korean* Sijo *Forms in Contemporary English* Sijo *Poems: A Study of Prosodic Experimentations in David R. McCann’s English* Sijo *Poems from the Perspective of Generative Metrics Theory* Young-Jun Lee (Kyung Hee University)  
*Always Present: Unredeemable Time in Modern Korean Literature* Sunghee Kim (Harvard University)  
*Use and Utility: New Hermeneutic Possibilities and Ethical Inquiries in the Study of North Korean Literature* 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break  
  
11:00 – 12:15 **Session II: Voices from the Margins** Moderator: Paul Y. Chang (Harvard University)  
Discussants: Mark Peterson (Brigham Young University), Peter Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)   
  
Ellie Choi (Cornell University)  
*Northern s*ilhyangmin (西北 失鄕民) *writers in colonial Keijō*  
  
Ivanna Yi (Harvard University)  
*Creating the Self with the Other: Empathy and the Imagination in Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Shin Kyung-Sook*  
  
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (Keynote Speech by Korea Foundation Executive Vice President Nam-jin Zeon)  
  
1:30 – 3:15 **Session III: Materiality of Literature**  
Moderator: Yoon Sun Yang (Boston University)  
Discussants: Stephen Owen (Harvard University), Kyeong-Hee Choi (THe University of Chicago), Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)  
  
Jamie Jungmin Yoo (Harvard University)  
*Location of Texts: Sino-Korean Book Circulation and Reception of Ming and Qing Literature in Late 18th-Century Korea*  
  
Jiwon Shin (Arizona State University)  
*Chinese Image, Korean Text, and Cultural Objects in Circulation, 1800’s-1940’s*  
  
Wayne de Fremery (Sogang University)  
*Graph, Map & Tree—New (and Old) Algorithms for Performing Korean Literature*  
  
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break  
  
3:30 – 5:15 **Session IV: History and Literature** Moderator: Carter J. Eckert (Harvard University)  
Discussants: Karen Thornber (Harvard University), Mi-Ryong Shim (Harvard University), Christopher Hanscom (University of California, Los Angeles)  
  
John M. Frankl (Yonsei University)  
*Liberated by Oppression: Colonial Korea between the United States and Japan*  
  
Jung Ja Choi (Harvard University)  
*Playing with Voices: Rewriting Women’s History in Ko Chŏnghŭi’s Poetry*  
  
Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)  
*Searching for Memory: Writing Trauma in Post-1987 Korean Literature*  
  
5:15 – 5:30 Closing Remarks by Professor David R. McCann  
  
*The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature.*



 

 



 

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